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Regarding your query about a chocolate beverage that calls for chili pepper
as an ingredient. My daughter-in-law said she knows of none that is prepared
today, but she will ask her friends and relatives. She is from Monterrey
and thinks that there might be a reference to it in the Mexico City area.

She believes that the reference to combining peppers and chocolate refers
to Mole, a unique flavoring for chicken or turkey and a very popular
dish invented by a nun and based on an ancient festival dish prepared by
the Aztecs. I found the following references and recipes in the "Good Food
From Mexico" cited below.)

Regarding the topic Mexican Chocolate beverage, I located the following in
a nice little paperback book "Good Food From Mexico" by Ruth Watt Mulvey
and Luisa Maria Alvarez, 1950 by M. Barrows & Co, Inc. First published by
Collier Books, in 1962. This is nice cookbook in paperback and has 350
recipes for unique native Mexican dishes which I have not seen in other
cookbooks. I hope it is still in print.

"Chocolate, or cacahuatl as it was originally called, is one of Mexico's
gifts to the world. I proved so popular in Europe after the return of
the Spaniards that one of the popes forbade its use on the grounds that
it was an aphrodisiac. Legend has it that the supreme epicure Moctezuma
was the first to discover chocolate ice and sent his runners to the heights
of the volcano to bring back blocks of snow over which thick chocolate was
poured, whipped, and served as chilled froth. A rare morning treat, Mexican
chocolate is different from chocolate drunk anywhere in the world. Part of
its unique flavor comes from the mixture of cinnamon and vanilla." p.13

"When the ambassadors of Cortes encountered the Aztec Emperor Moctezuma, he
was at the breakfast table shielded by a rich screen. Servants were filing by
in endless procession with tempting delicacies. The most frequent offering
was a steaming aromatic drink which was called cacahuatl, meaning sour water.
The thin beverage made from water and seeds, so valuable that they were used
as currency in many parts of Mexico and so costly that only royalty could
afford them, was a favorite drink. On first taste, the Spaniards were not
impressed, but when they were served the beverage sweetened with honey and
flavored with spices and vanilla, they succumbed. In short order the
chocolate habit spread to Europe.

There it became inordinately popular. So popular, in fact that
ecclesiastical authorities frowned upon chocolate drinking as immoral
and provocative of immorality; finally a Papal Bull was issued
prohibiting the faithful from drinking it.

Mexican chocolate is not something found upon a shelf with simple
instructions to "add one cup of water." It is still prepared with the
lovely carved whirling molinillos. These whip into a steaming froth
the small cinnamon-flavored cakes, which are melted in hot water and
often enriched with egg." p. 28

6 cups milk
3 ounces Mexican chocolate (or dark Dutch type)
1 tsp powdered cinnamon
3 eggs, beaten
Boil milk in the top of a deep double boiler five minutes. Remove from
fire and add chocolate, mixed with the cinnamon, a little at a time,
beating with molinillo or egg beater after each addition. When the chocolate
is thoroughly blended, heat to the boiling point. Place over bottom of
double boiler and add eggs, whipping constantly, until they are
thoroughly blended and the mixture is frothing. Yield: 8 servings.
MOLE
"Food has always been more than mere subsistence, even to the poorest Indians
of the country. When the Spanish Conquistadores landed in 1519, they were
given presents of gold and silver and jewels so priceless that they enslaved
an entire empire to gain the source. Chiefest honor, however, was the
special dishes which had been prepared by the Aztecs for the "visitors".
Through the centuries Mexicans have continued to share bread with friends
and with honored guests. Indeed, the national dish--the famous Mole de
Guajolote--was created in the spirit of the Legion of Merit.
More than three centuries ago, word came to the nuns living in a convent
in the quiet tiled city of Puebla that the Viceroy would visit their
institution on his next trip. ...a nameless nun thought that (dinner)
should be something truly extraordinary. What could be more unusual and
more appropiate than a variation of the principal fiesta dish of the Aztecs?
Mole Poblano was born from turkey, and spices: sesame seed, garlic,
onion, almonds, tortillas, cloves, blackpepper, aniseed, salt, chocolate,
raisins, cinnamon. The dish is still one of the most respected dishes of
Mexico and found on every table at a christening, marriage feast, and funeral
meals.
Curiously enough Puebla, like the nuns who gave the dish to Mexico, is
purely Spanish. Mole, itself, like most of the other dishes in this book
are of native origin.